This week’s theme
Words made with combining forms

This week’s words
polyandry
hypernym
arthroplasty
neophile
hierophant

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(AR-thruh-plas-tee)

MEANING:

noun: The surgical repair or replacement of a joint.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek arthro- (joint) + -plasty (formation, repair, molding). Earliest documented use: 1890.

USAGE:

“He started into a detailed description of the total hip arthroplasty he’d just finished with such enthusiasm it would be easy to assume this was the first hip he’d ever replaced, not the two-thousandth.”
Peter Hogenkamp; The Intern; TouchPoint Press; 2020.

See more usage examples of arthroplasty in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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